Meridian Ventures

We are excited to bring on Curtis Feeny as an advisor! Under his mentorship, we are confident he will help take Meridian to new heights. Curtis is a Senior Advisor at Peterson Partners. Prior to Peterson Partners, Curtis was a General Partner in venture capital funds at Voyager Capital and Silicon Valley Data Capital. Prior to Voyager Capital and Silicon Valley Data Capital, he was Executive Vice President of Stanford Management Company and a Partner at Trammell Crow Company. Curtis has served on 35 public and private boards. He recently served on the boards of CBRE (NYSE) and Staples (NYSE) and is currently on the boards of Khan Academy and Stanford Federal Credit Union. Curtis received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in M.E. from Texas A&M University. #advisor #venture #venturecapital #VC #strategy #stanford #hbs #harvard #business #investing #NYSE #MBA

We are proud to participate in Eden's $10M Series A alongside SIERRA Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures, Jack Altman, Y Combinator, and other amazing VCs. Eden is transforming the healthcare system across LATAM, and we are excited to be a part of their positive impact. Couldn't ask for a better leader than Julián Ríos Cantú to lead the charge! Great things are on the horizon. #eden #health #healthcare #healthtech #technology #startups #AI #artificialintelligence

Join the olive team! Check out this job posting for their Senior Full Stack Software Engineer position. 👇 #engineer #cali #california #tech #startup #technology #software #softwareengineer #meridian #meridianventures

We are excited to bring on Ken Goldman as an advisor! Mr. Goldman is the former President of Hillspire, a family office management company. Prior to that, Mr. Goldman was the former chief financial officer of Yahoo!, responsible for Yahoo! 's global finance functions, including financial planning and analysis, controllership, tax, treasury, and investor relations, since October 2012. Mr. Goldman served as chief financial officer of Fortinet, a provider of unified threat management solutions, from September 2007 to September 2012. From August 2000 until March 2006, Mr. Goldman served as SVP of finance and CFO of Oracle (Siebel Systems), Inc. During a professional career spanning over forty years, Mr. Goldman has served as CFO of multiple public and private companies and as CFO has helped take three companies public including VLSI, Excite@Home, and Fortinet.    Mr. Goldman also currently serves on the board of directors of public companies, including Fortinet, RingCentral, Zuora, and GoPro, Inc., private boards including Wealthfront, INXEPTION, and Pattern Computer, where he also serves as a consulting CFO, and other non-profit boards such as the RFK Human Rights Board and formerly Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Foundation Board. Mr. Goldman was a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University from 2005 to 2013 and was subsequently designated as Emeritus Trustee, and is also a member of Cornell University Bowers CIS Advisory Council. Mr. Goldman was appointed in January 2015 to a three-year term to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB's) Standing Advisory Group (SAG). He was a member of the Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession over the years 2007-2008, and from December 1999 to December 2003, Mr. Goldman served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) and has been a member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), VRF and IFRS since 2018. Mr. Goldman holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. #advisor #meridianventures #hbs #oracle #cfo #finance

🚀 Big Win for Meridian Ventures! 🚀 We're thrilled to announce that Hona closed a $9.5 million Series A round led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation from Ludlow Ventures, Soma Capital, and Y Combinator. Hona's verticalized software solution offers real-time updates, transparent case tracking, and AI-driven assistance, meeting modern clients' demands for immediacy and openness. This allows law firms to automate redundant tasks and focus on client relationships. We're proud to support Hona’s journey and excited about what's next! Congratulations to Manny Griffiths, Joshua Christensen, Matt McClellan, and the Hona team! #legal #legaltech #tech #utah #technology #AI #startup #verticalsaas

Read more about our recent investment in Packsmith! We are excited to invest in and witness Ben Wunderman and Simon Robb upgrade the logistics infrastructure for e-commerce brands. Devon Gethers / Karlton Haney. #consumer #software #B2B #marketplace #tech #technology #airbnb #uber #MLM #entrepreneurship #vc #venture #venturecapital #investing

We are thrilled to announce our participation in Pier's $2.4M Seed round financing alongside Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, HorizonVC, and ACME Capital. Pier is led by two fearless fintech leaders: Jessica Zhang and Alex Hegevall Clarke, who developed unique technology to manage the credit lifecycle from end-to-end, including origination, underwriting, compliance and servicing. #technology #tech #finance #fintech #credit #stripe #bank #fundraising #meridian #startup #entrepreneurs

We are excited to spotlight our most recent investment in Bowtie! Bowtie redefining how networks are accessed and secured. Bowtie works in trust on all desktop platforms, linux servers, and mobile. Unlike traditional shared enterprise networks, Bowtie brings the enterprise network directly to the user, wherever there is internet connectivity. Check out why Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney invested in this company below! 📲 #cyber #cybersecurity #security  #meridian #venture #startup #founder #venturecapital #fundraising #capital #investments #VC #network #decentralized #internet #enterprisesoftware

🌐 Meridian Ventures Portfolio Spotlight: CAST AI! 🌐 🚀 CAST AI is the market leader in cloud technology, singularly focused on transforming the way businesses manage and optimize their cloud infrastructure. As companies scale, they often find their cloud expenses spiraling out of control, primarily due to inefficient resource utilization, allocation and a lack of visibility into cloud operations. CAST directly addresses these issues by easing the complexities of cloud cost bills for customers on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure through #Kubernetes automation and cloud cost management. The company’s platform goes beyond monitoring clusters and making recommendations; it utilizes advanced ML algorithms to analyze and automatically optimize clusters, saving customers 50% or more on their cloud spend, improving cost-performance ratios and reliability and boosting DevOps and engineering productivity. 💡 Meet the Visionaries Behind CAST Yuri Frayman, Laurent Gil, and Leon Kuperman, the dynamic co-founders of CAST, are driven by a shared belief: Running applications in the cloud is complex and expensive. This is a team of seasoned professionals who have a deep expertise in cloud computing, software engineering, and business strategy. Yuri, CEO, has accumulated over 20 years of experience operating in the cloud provider landscape. Throughout that time, he has built and led five successful startups, returning to his investors more than $750M in exit value. Yuri has sold his startups to Oracle, Comcast, Google, Hummingbird, and Intapp. In Yuri's prior company, he spent millions of dollars on AWS and never understood why. With this insight, he was motivated to found CAST and positively impact the world. 🌱 $35M Series B to Help Companies Cut Cloud Costs by 50% or More Cast closed a $35 million in a Series B round led by Vintage Investment Partners with participation from Creandum and Uncorrelated Ventures. The new infusion of cash brings Cast AI’s total raised to $73M and will propel the company's product development and expand its platform and team. 🔗 Stay Tuned for More Updates Keep an eye out for more exciting news about Cast AI and how they're innovating in the cloud provider space. Request a demo here: https://cast.ai/pricing/ #meridian #google #aws #cloud #cloudcomputing #gpu #ai #ml #optimization #cloudproviders #leadership #hire #recruiting #startup #entrepreneurship #founder #management #pricing #strategy #microsoft Karlton Haney Devon Gethers